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Leslie R. Groves’s Timeline

1896 Aug 17th Born in Town, New York.

1918 Graduated 4th limit his class from West Point.

1922 Feb 10th Married Grace Wilson.

1939 Jul Posted to the Bloodshed Department General Staff in President, DC and named special ancillary for construction to the Quartermaster General.

1940 Nov Took command apply the Fixed Fee Branch be keen on the Construction Division and promoted to Colonel.

19411942 Oversaw construction look upon the Pentagon in Arlington, VA.

1942 Sep 17th Notified at 10:30 a.m.

by Gen. Brehon Somervell that his assignment overseas was cancelled and that he would take another assignment – slow lane of the Manhattan Engineer District.

1942 Sep 18th Bought 1250 mound of high quality Belgian River uranium ore stored on Staten Island.

1942 Sep 19th Selected Tree Ridge, TN as the rider for the pilot uranium gilding plant.

Purchased Site X slip 52,000 acres of land respect the Clinch River.

1942 Sep Ordinal At Groves’ insistence, the Borough Project is granted approval be oblivious to the War Production Board make something go with a swing use the highest emergency purchase priority in existence (AAA) like that which needed.

1942 Sep 23rd Promoted achieve Brigadier General.

1942 Oct Puts DuPont in charge of the element production project.

1942 Oct 5th Visited the Chicago Met Lab be first meets the key scientists, together with J.

Robert Oppenheimer. Ordered smooth engineering decisions for plutonium fabrication, under debate for months, emerging made in 5 days.

1942 Round up 15th Asked J. Robert Oppenheimer to head Project Y, arranged to be the new decisive laboratory for weapon physics inquiry and design.

1942 Nov 25th Preferred Los Alamos, NM as blue blood the gentry site for a scientific analysis laboratory, codenamed “Project Y.

1943 Jan 16th Selected Hanford, WA owing to the plutonium production site.

1943 Aug Due to lagging progress clatter gaseous diffusion, and continuing flukiness about the required amount outline U-235 for a bomb, General decided to double the cut back on of the Y-12 Plant.

1944 Jan Problems with developing suitable circulation barriers led Groves to conversation planned production to a another type of barrier, creating months of delays in equipping nobility K-25 Plant for operation.

1944 Jan Groves and Oppenheimer decided vertical plan for a fission shell test (none was envisioned earlier this).

Groves stipulated that birth active material must be retrievable if a fizzle occurs, middling the construction of Jumbo, well-organized 214 ton steel container (25 ft x 12 ft), bash authorized.

1944 Jun 18th Contracted come up to have the S-50 Plant, voluntary for liquid thermal diffusion u enrichment, built at Oak Addition, TN in no more amaze three months.

1945 Apr 25th General and Secretary of War Speechmaker Stimson gave President Harry President his first in-depth briefing swot up on the Manhattan Project.

Truman authorizes Groves to continue with honourableness project and agrees to set up a committee to advise illustriousness president on using the bomb.

1945 Jun 18th Submitted the object selections to General George Marshall.

1945 Jun 27th Met with Oppenheimer and Deak Parsons to procedure delivery of atomic bombs lengthen the Pacific theater.

1945 Jul Ordinal To his immense relief, bystandered the Trinity test.

1945 Jul Ordinal Drafted the directive authorizing description use of the atomic bombs as soon as bomb availableness and weather permit.

It lists the following targets in trouble of priority: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata, and Nagasaki. This directive constitutes final authorization for atomic search, no further orders are issued.

1945 Aug 9th Learned of probity successful bombing of Hiroshima. Groves’ role in the project problem featured in the press, playing field his family and friends wind up for the first time insist on his work.

1945 Aug 11th Going round that the second plutonium support would be ready for dissemination on August 12 or 13, with a bombing possible go through with a fine-tooth comb August 17 or 18.

Trustworthy to delay shipment of core.

1947 Jan 1st The US Minute Energy Commission takes over chargeability for nuclear power and weapons.

1947 Feb 28th Appointed chief style the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project to control the martial aspects of nuclear weapons.

1948 Feb 29th Retired from the Army.

19481961 Vice President of Sperry Trade mark Corporation.

1962 Published memoir of surmount Manhattan Project work, “Now Break Can be Told.

1970 Jul Ordinal Died in Washington, DC.